From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 nf-next] netfilter: conntrack: remove the central spinlock Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:48:56 -0700 Message-ID: <1369255736.3301.358.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <1368068665.13473.81.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1369244868.3301.343.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1369246816.2143.84.camel@joe-AO722> <1369250772.3301.349.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1369252624.2143.103.camel@joe-AO722> <1369253761.3301.355.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1369255104.2143.108.camel@joe-AO722> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev , Tom Herbert , Patrick McHardy To: Joe Perches Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.220.47]:57485 "EHLO mail-pa0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757319Ab3EVUs6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 16:48:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1369255104.2143.108.camel@joe-AO722> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 13:38 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > u16 for cpu is hardly used at all. Its used in network tree. The day it has to change, don't worry, I think we'll be able to handle it. For the meantime, I do not want to add 4 more bytes to conntrack structure, its already bloated enough.